This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorial foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, containing 50 articles by authors from Japan, Austria, England, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States, and elsewhere. Their cultural differences provide perspectives for a shared understanding of central design categories and communicating about design.

Design Dictionary also includes current design terms as well as classics of design discourse. A practical book, both scholarly and ideal for browsing and reading at leisure.